Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 21:50:25 -0400 (EDT) From: gt4722a@prism.gatech.edu (Brian "AGENT GORDON COLE" Atkins) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Win95 trashing SMC EtherPower Message-ID: <199510100150.VAA14540@acmex.gatech.edu>
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Here is a strange problem that maybe someone else can help me understand. I recently installed Win95 on my computer that up till that point had been running dos and FreeBSD. Everything worked great until yesterday... I had rebooted into dos mode and stopped the loading of Win95 with a F8 and went to the "old dos" mode that the F8 menu has in it. I was trying out some CD-DA digital audio grabbers on my cdrom, and then reset the computer to go back to FreeBSD land. This was where the problem surfaced: the boot hung at the localhost ifconfig. I let it sit there for a few minutes and eventually it skipped it, but of course everything was generally screwed up. I shutdown and turned the computer off... even took the power cord out. Turned it back on; same problem. So I figure Win95 must be interfering somehow. I start it up and try removing the ethernet card from the network controls and restarting FreeBSD. Same problem. I finally solved it today, by completely chunking every last networking item, even the icons off the desktop, and telling Win95 that I was using a modem for all my telecomm needs. That finally got things working right again. My question is how did Win95 do something to my card that was so permanent it could even last through no power? Since my card is PnP, does it have some kind of non-volatile bios on it that settings are stored in? And is there some way to keep Win95 from trashing those settings? And what exactly was trashed anyway? The MB is an ASUS P55TP4XE, w/ P100 and the SMC card... Running FreeBSD 950928-SNAP + Win95(unfortunately)
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